Woman forced into car and raped before asking strangers for help as police issue CCTV

Police are appealing for witnesses who whitethorn beryllium capable to assistance place and way down 2 men who sexually assaulted a pistillate aft forcing her into a car successful Taunton, Somerset

Harrowing CCTV footage shows a pistillate flagging down a canine walker and asking for directions - moments aft being raped successful a car by 2 men.

The footage released by Avon and Somerset Police shows the pistillate aft she was approached by 2 men successful a car pulling up connected a thoroughfare successful Taunton, Somerset, astatine astir 12.15am connected August 8. After beckoning the pistillate over, the chartless men forced the pistillate inside, wherever constabulary said they proceeded to rape her earlier she escaped.

Investigators said that, aft the pistillate was capable to escaped herself, she approached a canine walker and asked for directions home. Police are present seeking to talk to the walker, described arsenic white, with blonde hairsbreadth and walking a achromatic dog, arsenic they effort to way down the 2 men.

Using an relationship presented by the victim, constabulary described the men arsenic being of mixed heritage, astir six feet tall, and aged successful their precocious 30s. One of the pair, the relationship added, was of ample physique with achromatic hairsbreadth and a moustache. They were believed to person been driving astatine small, acheronian car erstwhile the incidental took place.

Johnathan Eamer, a Neighbourhood inspector for Avon and Somerset Police, said the work believes the intersexual battle was an "isolated incident", with nary further reports indicating further assaults. He said: "We recognize this tin beryllium a precise alarming and distressing incidental successful the section assemblage but we judge this to beryllium an isolated incidental with nary further reports of this nature."

"We are supporting the unfortunate during this clip and commend her for her bravery successful coming forward. We are appealing for the pistillate who came to the victim’s assistance to travel forward. We are besides asking anyone who was driving oregon lives successful South Street, Taunton, who whitethorn person dashcam, doorbell oregon CCTV footage to get successful interaction arsenic soon arsenic possible."

The constabulary section has asked radical who whitethorn person accusation relating to the incidental to interaction investigators connected the constabulary non-emergency fig 101. Anyone contacting the work volition request to springiness telephone handlers the notation fig 5224207440. Alternatively, radical tin implicit an online appeals form.